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Affiliation

Faculty of Education
University of Macau

Email

kunrusong@um.edu.mo

Tel

(853) 8822 8922

Fax

(853) 8822 2402

Office

Room 2042, Faculty of Education,

University of Macau, E33,

Av. da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China

Kunru SONG  宋坤儒

Research Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education, University of Macau

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China, 2025
  • B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Automation, Hunan University, China, 2019

Professional Qualifications

  • Research Assistant Professor (October 2025 – present), Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

Research Areas

  • Psychotherapy for behavioral addiction
  • Neurocognitive mechanism of addictive behaviors
  • Adolescent development (brain & behavior)

Teaching Areas

  • School Counselling
  • Counselling and Guidance

Selected Publications

For the full list of publications, please kindly refer to my Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=P6j5frUAAAAJ

  • Guo, P., Zhen, Z., Yang, S., Chen, H., Zhang, Y. C., Dong, Q., Song, K., Zhang, J.-T., & Nan, Y. (2025). White matter tracts underlying rhythm perception in adolescence. NeuroImage, 320, 121478.
  •  Kang, M.., Xu, L., Zhang, J. L., Song, K., Wang, Z., Fang, X., Bowden-Jones, H., Pallanti, S., & Zhang, J.-T. (2025). Exploring the heterogeneity of internet gaming disorder: a stage-based framework characterized by evolving euphoria and compulsivity. Addictive behaviors, 171, 108457.
  • Xu L., Song K., Deng H., Geng X., Zhang J., Fang X., Potenza M., Zhang J.-T. (2025). Beyond screen time: The core influences of problematic screen use on adolescent development networks. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 14(2):724-737.
  • Yang, Y., Ye, C., Cai, G., Song, K., Zhang, J., Xiang, Y., & Ma, T. (2025). Hypercomplex Graph Neural Network: Towards Deep Intersection of Multi-Modal Brain Networks. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, 29(5), 3304–3316.
  • Li, Q., Song, K., Feng, T., Zhang, J.-T., & Fang, X. (2024). Machine learning identifies different related factors associated with depression and suicidal ideation in Chinese children and adolescents. Journal of affective disorders. 15;361:24-35.
  • Xu, L., Zhang, J., Geng, X., Song, K., Zeng, P., Potenza, M.N., Schad, D.J., & Zhang, J.-T. (2024). Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer and outcome-devaluation effects in individuals with gaming experience. Computers in Human Behaviors, 155, 108188.
  • Deng H., Song K., Geng X., Xu L., Zhang J., Li X., He J., Potenza M., Zhang J.-T. (2024). Online social activity time predicts ADHD problems in youth from late childhood to early adolescence in the ABCD study. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 34(7):2195-2204.
  • Yao Y., Song K., Schuck N., Li X., Fang X., Zhang J.-T.*, Heekeren H., Bruckner R. (2023). The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex represents subjective value across effort-based and risky decision-making. Neuroimage. 279:120326.
  • Song, K., Zhang J., Zhou N, Fu Y, Zou B, Xu L, Wang Z, Li X, Zhao Y, Potenza M, Fang X, Zhang J-T*. (2023) Youth Screen Media Activity Patterns and Associations with Behavioral Developmental Measures and Resting-state Brain Functional Connectivity. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 62(9), 1051-1063.
  • Wu, L., Xu, J., Song, K., Zhu, L., Zhou, N., Xu, L., Liu, G., Wang, Z., Wang, R., Qin, S., Fang, X., Zhang, J.-T., Potenza, M. (2022). Emotional bias modification weakens game-related compulsivity and reshapes frontostriatal pathways. Brain. 145(12), 4210-4221.
  • Wang Z., Potenza M., Song K., Dong G., Fang X., Zhang J.-T. (2022). Subgroups of internet gaming disorder based on addiction‐related resting‐state functional connectivity. Addiction, 118(2), 327-339.
  • Zhou, N., Liang, Y., Cao, H., Song, K., Chen, Y., Hao, R., & Zhang, J. (2022). Chinese adolescents’ problematic cellphone use: Exploring the implications of configuration profiles of cellphone-specific parenting behaviors. Computers in Human Behaviors, 137, 107408.
  • Wang, Z., Song, K., Zhou, N., Potenza, M. N., Zhang, J.-T., & Dong, G. (2022). Gender-related differences in involvement of addiction brain networks in internet gaming disorder: Relationships with craving and emotional regulation. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry, 118, 110574.
  • Wang, Z., Potenza, M. N., Song, K., Fang, X., Liu, L., Ma, S., Xia, C., Lan, J., Yao, Y., & Zhang, J.-T. (2022). Neural classification of internet gaming disorder and prediction of treatment response using a cue-reactivity fMRI task in young men. Journal of psychiatric research, 145, 309–316.
  • Song K. R., Potenza M., Fang X., Gong G., Yao Y., Wang Z., Liu L., Ma S., Xia C., Lan J., Deng L., Wu L., Zhang J-T.* (2021). Resting-state connectome-based support-vector-machine predictive modeling of internet gaming disorder. Addiction Biology. 26(4):e12969.
  • Xu, L. X., Wu, L. L., Geng, X. M., Wang, Z. L., Guo, X. Y., Song, K. R., Liu, G. Q., Deng, L. Y., Zhang, J. T., & Potenza, M. N. (2021). A review of psychological interventions for internet addiction. Psychiatry research, 302, 114016.

Conference Presentations

  1. Song K., Zhou N., Zhang J.-T. (2023, August). Youth Screen Media Activity Patterns and Associations with Behavioral Developmental Measures and Resting-state Brain Functional Connectivity. [Oral Presentaion]. The 8th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions. Incheon, South Korea.
  2. Song K., Zhang J.-T. (2024, March). Trajectory and State Transition of Youth Screen Media Activity Patterns from Late Childhood to Early Adolescence. [Poster Presentation]. ABCD Insights and Innovations Meeting. Maryland, USA.
  3. Song K., Zhang J.-T. (2019, October). Connectome-Based Classification of Internet Gaming Disorder. [Poster Presentation]. The 22nd National Academic Congress of Psychology. Hangzhou, China.

Honors and Awards

  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2018 & 2023
  • China Scholarship Council (CSC) Fellowship for Visiting Research Scholar, 2022–2023

Professional Affiliations

Membership

  • 2021 – present Chinese Psychological Society

Journal Reviewer

  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, JMIR formative research, PloS One, Psychiatry Research